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Men Quotes by Jean Genet
- When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite…
- Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
- The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens…
- What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder…
- In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands…
- There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.
- Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may…
- Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves,…
- The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
- Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
- A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
- When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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